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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\'
To: Neil Zanella <nzanella AT cs DOT mun DOT ca>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Neil Zanella <nzanella AT cs DOT mun DOT ca> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> > It is not clear from this context, but hopefully you know that \ is a
> > special character in bash.  I think a one line statement of that fact
> > might have been more useful than the above 20 lines of "What's he trying
> > to say?"
> > 
> > So, just to be perfectly clear, you have to either double the \ character
> > in bash or quote it if you want a program to see it.
> 
> And now, just in case anyone on this list was still wondering, the
> complete bash reference manual is available from:
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash
> So there you go.
> 

Why not just `info --file /usr/info/bash.info'?

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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